Definition of "hafta" []

• Eye dialect spelling of have to. Be required to; must. (verb)

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• "The municipal officer demands a bribe from a hawker; the bureaucrat refuses to register a land title or a marriage; the traffic cop beats the rickshaw-driver who can't afford to pay his weekly installment, known as hafta."
• "But I always say, then you "hafta" make sure that these free trade agreements are being abided by both parties, and that's not what's happened."
• "Having done her bit, the policewoman pocketed the 'hafta'"